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Connecticut Aggies football
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The Connecticut Huskies football team is a college football team that represents the University of Connecticut in the sport of American football. The team competes in NCAA Division I FBS in the American Athletic Conference, Connecticut first fielded a team in 1896, and participated in Division I-AA until 1999. The Huskies began their two-year Division I-A transition period in 2000, from 2000 to 2003 the team played as an independent. The schools football team joined the conference of its other sport teams. The University of Connecticut began playing football in 1896 when the school was known as Storrs Agricultural College, the first year was spent playing against local high schools and YMCA clubs. The following year provided their first competition against future rivals Rhode Island, an opponent that would be played over 100 times, other early rivals included the Ivy League and the Little Ivies, particularly Yale University starting in 1948, who have played the Huskies for 50 years. Tragedy struck the team on September 27,1919 when Gardner Dow died from injuries related to a flying tackle that he delivered in a game against New Hampshire. The college would honor Dow by naming the athletic fields after him and these fields would become the home for most of the schools athletic teams for the next three decades. In 1924, the Aggies celebrated their first undefeated season when they finished six wins, no losses. The defense was the strength of the team, as allowed a meager thirteen points to be scored against them over the entire season. The team was proclaimed by the New York Times to be among the best in the country, the UConn Club memorializes ONeill with a yearly award given to a former student-athlete who has had a successful professional career. Red ONeill went on to one of Connecticuts first players to play in the NFL. He played for the Hartford Blues in 1926, their year in the NFL. Another player is Art Pop Williams, winning a championship with the Providence Steam Roller in 1928, the Steam Roller are New Englands first NFL champion. The renamed Huskies went on to become members of the Yankee Conference. In 2012, Bill Belichick stated in an interview on WEEI that in 1983 he applied for the Huskies head coaching position but was turned down in favor of an internal hire. Connecticut hired Lew Perkins as its director in 1990. One of Perkins first projects was to gather facts for an upgrade of the football program to Division I-A

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New England Conference
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The New England Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the Eastern United States, more specifically in New England, that operated from 1923 to 1947. The conference had five members—four of them public land-grant institutions, specifically, the four public schools in the conference were what are now known as the Universities of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Yankee Conference would become football-only in 1975, and then was absorbed by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997, membership changes in rival conference the Colonial Athletic Association would give that conference 6 football-playing members starting in 2005-06, all of which had football in the A-10. With that, the CAA announced its full members would start playing football in the CAA in 2007. Eventually, it was agreed that the A-10 would hand off management of its football conference to the CAA. Further illustrating the continuity between conferences, the automatic berth of the Yankee Conference in the Division I FCS playoffs passed in succession to the A10. Connecticut State College University of Maine University of New Hampshire Northeastern University Rhode Island State College This is a partial list of champions of the New England Conference, Yankee Conference History and List of Football Champions

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New Hampshire Wildcats football
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The New Hampshire Wildcats football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of New Hampshire located in the U. S. state of New Hampshire. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, New Hampshires first football team was fielded in 1893. The team plays its games at the 11,000 seat Wildcat Stadium in Durham. The Wildcats are coached by Sean McDonnell, in the 1975 NCAA Division II postseason, the Wildcats defeated Lehigh in the first round, 35–21. The Wildcats then played Western Kentucky in the 1975 Grantland Rice Bowl semifinal game, in the 1976 NCAA Division II postseason, the Wildcats lost to Montana State in the first round, 17–16, Montana State went on to win the Division II championship. The Wildcats have appeared in the Division I-AA/FCS Playoffs 15 times, an annual rivalry game is played between the Wildcats and the University of Maine Black Bears. The winner of this gets the right to hang the Brice-Cowell Musket up in their locker room for the year following this game. The Wildcats and the Bears have met 106 times on the field during the regular season. A game between two rival teams creates a lot of emotion and intensity from both sides, and it is always a big deal to win this particular game. University officials explained that there was no instruction on how to spend the money and it was also noted that Morin started watching and became particularly interested in football towards the end of his life

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Maine Black Bears football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association. Maines first football team was fielded in 1892, the team plays its home games at the 10,000 seat Alfond Stadium in Orono, Maine. The Black Bears have competed in just one game, the 1965 Tangerine Bowl. They lost 31–0 to East Carolina,1949,1951,1952,1961,1965,1974,1982,1987,1989,2001,2002,2013 Official website

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Rhode Island Rams football
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The Rhode Island Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Rhode Island located in the U. S. state of Rhode Island. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, Rhode Islands first football team was fielded in 1895. The team plays its games at the 5,180 seat Meade Stadium in Kingston. They have just three winning seasons since that time, and none since 2002

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University of Connecticut
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The University of Connecticut is a land grant public research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881, and is also a sea-grant university, the university serves more than 32,000 students on its five campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn is one of the institutions of the Hartford, Connecticut/Springfield, Massachusetts regional economic. UConn is a member of Universitas 21, a network of 24 research-intensive universities. UConn is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the became a land grant college. In 1939, the name was changed to the University of Connecticut, over the next decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established, and the schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools, John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975. Competing in the American Athletic Conference as the Huskies, UConn has been successful in their mens and womens basketball programs. The Huskies have won 21 NCAA championships, UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, brothers who donated the land for the school as well as initial funding. Women began attending classes in 1891 and were admitted in 1893. In 1899, the name changed again to Connecticut Agricultural College, in 1933, to Connecticut State College, in 1940, the school was first divided into individual colleges and schools, reflecting its new university status. This was also the year the School of Social Work and School of Nursing were established, the graduate program was also started at this time, and the schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. Ph. D. s have been awarded since 1949, during the 1960s, UConn Health was established in Farmington as a home for the new School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975 and has operated by UConn ever since. In 1995, a program called UConn 2000 was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly. This 10-year program set aside $1 billion to upgrade facilities, add faculty

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Albright Lions football
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Albright College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college. It was founded in 1856 and is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, Albright College has been named one of the Best Northeastern schools for 13 consecutive years by The Princeton Review. Albright College has also named one of the most ethnically and economically diverse schools in the country by U. S News. In the “Campus Ethnic Diversity” category, as part of its 2017 Best Colleges rankings, in the “Economic Diversity” category, Albright ranked 21st out of 214 national liberal arts schools named. The Economist magazine listed Albright among the top 50 American colleges and universities for economic value in 2015, Albright College offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, as well as a Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in education. The college also offers accelerated degree programs with 10 locations throughout Pennsylvania, Albright does not require applicants to take the SAT or submit SAT scores, submission of these scores is optional. Albright offers liberal arts and pre-professional programs and it created one of the first undergraduate psychobiology programs in the nation in the 1960s. The Colleges liberal arts curriculum has a focus that allows students to create an individualized education. Fully half of Albright students have concentrations that combine two or three fields of learning, berks Countys oldest institute of higher learning, Albright College traces its founding to 1856 when Union Seminary opened. Present-day Albright was actually formed by the mergers of several institutions, Albright Collegiate Institute opened in 1895 and was renamed Albright College three years later. Union Seminary became Central Pennsylvania College and, in 1902, merged with Albright College, Schuylkill College, previously called Schuylkill Seminary, merged with Albright College in 1928. Albrights campus relocated from Myerstown, to Schuylkill College’s campus, which is the present location of Albright, the College is named for Pennsylvania-German evangelical preacher Jacob Albright, who founded the Evangelical Association. Born in 1759 in Douglass Township, with the name of Johannes Jacob Albrecht. Albright College athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III as a member of the Middle Atlantic Conferences, charles Pop Kelchner founded the Mens Basketball team in 1900 and was athletic director at Albright College for 21 years. He was involved in aspects of Major League Baseball for over 50 years, Albright College dedicated the baseball field as Kelchner Field in 1952. Branch Rickey gave the speech, with Connie Mack in attendance. Kelchner was a graduate of Lafayette College with two degrees and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Classical Latin and he served as Professor of Languages and athletic director. Clarence Lester Biggie Munn was an American football player, coach and he was the head football coach at Albright College, Syracuse University, and most notably Michigan State College, where his 1952 squad won a national championship

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Reading, Pennsylvania
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Reading, is the county seat of Berks County and with a population of 98,653 is the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania. Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, it is the city of the Greater Reading Area. Reading Railroad is one of the four properties in the classic United States version of the Monopoly board game. Reading was one of the first localities where outlet shopping became a tourist industry and it has been known as The Pretzel City, because of numerous local pretzel bakeries. Currently, Bachman, Dieffenbach, Tom Sturgis, and Unique Pretzel bakeries call the Reading area home, according to the 2010 census, Reading has the highest share of citizens living in poverty in the nation. In recent years, the Reading area has become a destination for cyclists, with more than 125 miles of trails in five major preserves, it is an International Mountain Bicycling Association Ride Center and it annually hosts the Reading 120 international road cycling race. In April 2017, it was announced that an indoor velodrome, or cycling track, will be built in Reading as the first of its kind on the East Coast and it will also serve as the Cycling Leagues world headquarters. Lenni Lenape people, also known as Delaware Indians, were the inhabitants of the Reading area. The Colony of Pennsylvania was a 1680 land grant from King Charles II of England to William Penn, comprising more than 45,000 square miles, it was named for his father, Sir William Penn. In 1743, Richard and Thomas Penn mapped out the town of Reading with Conrad Weiser, taking its name from Reading, Berkshire, England, the town was established in 1748. Upon the creation of Berks County in 1752, Reading became the county seat, the region was settled by emigrants from southern and western Germany, who bought land from the Penns. The first Amish community in the New World was established in Greater Reading, the Pennsylvanian German dialect was spoken in the area well into the 1950s and later. During the French and Indian War, Reading was a base for a chain of forts along the Blue Mountain. By the time of the American Revolution, the iron industry had a total production which exceeded Englands. That output that would help supply George Washingtons troops with cannons, rifles, during the early period of the conflict, Reading was again a depot for military supply. Hessian prisoners from the Battle of Trenton were also detained here, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the capital of the United States at the time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. President Washington traveled to Reading, and considered making it the national capital. Susanna Cox was tried and convicted for infanticide in Reading in 1809 and her case attracted tremendous sympathy,20,000 viewers came to view her hanging, swamping the 3,000 inhabitants

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Orono, Maine
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Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Still Water Rivers, it was first settled by Europeans in 1774 and named in honor of Chief Joseph Orono and it is home to the University of Maine. The towns population was 10,362 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 19.60 square miles. The town is divided by the Stillwater River, a branch of the Penobscot River and it occupies part of Marsh Island, which is surrounded by the Penobscot and the Stillwater, and the remainder of the town is on the mainland. The Orono Dam impounds the Stillwater River at its confluence with the Penobscot River near downtown Orono and this climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Orono has a continental climate. As of the census of 2010, there were 10,363 people,2,831 households, the population density was 569.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 3,089 housing units at a density of 169.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 93. 7% White,1. 2% African American,1. 1% Native American,1. 9% Asian,0. 4% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 5% of the population. 30. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.77. The median age in the town was 21.8 years. 8. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,55. 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24,12. 2% were from 25 to 44,13. 1% were from 45 to 64, and 10. 4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 51. 8% male and 48. 2% female, as of the census of 2000, the town had a population of 9,112 people,2,691 households, and 1,291 families residing in the town. The population density is 500.3 people per square mile, there are 2,899 housing units at an average density of 159.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 93. 54% White,1. 38% Black or African American,0. 95% Native American,2. 39% Asian,0. 07% Pacific Islander,0. 52% from other races, and 1. 15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 21% of the population,31. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 0% had someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the family size was 2.81

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Tufts Jumbos football
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The Tufts Jumbos represent Tufts University of Medford, Massachusetts in the sport of college football. The team has played since the 1874–75 season, the Jumbos compete at the NCAA Division III level and have been members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference since the conferences formation in 1971. The football team plays its game at Ellis Oval on the Tufts campus in Medford. Jay Civetti has been the head coach since 2011. One Tufts player, William Grinnell, has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

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Coast Guard Bears football
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The United States Coast Guard Academys intercollegiate sports teams are called the boats and they compete in NCAA Division III as members of the New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference. The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, in 1926, then-Cadet Stephen Evans brought a live bear to the academy and named it Objee for Objectionable Presence. The tradition of keeping a bear as the mascot was continued until the City of New London petitioned for its removal in 1984. The athletic facilities have been undergoing upgrades since 2004, when the state-of-the-art FieldTurf synthetic surface was installed at Cadet Memorial Field. The Bears have a rivalry with neighboring Connecticut College. The rivalry is most evident during the Coast Guard–Connecticut College biannual club hockey game which draws large numbers of spectators from both schools, the Bears also play for the Secretaries Cup, an annual rivalry trophy in football against the Mariners of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. The academy maintains a fleet of over 150 vessels to support the offshore sailing and dinghy sailing teams. In 2007, a USCGA cadet, then a sailor from the class of 2011. That year Rohde gained recognition by being the first academy cadet, in 2006, the mens rugby club won the Division II National Championship at Stanford, California, after defeating the University of Northern Colorado

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New London, Connecticut
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New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the worlds three busiest whaling ports, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts. The wealth that whaling brought into the city furnished the capital to fund much of the present architecture. New London subsequently became home to shipping and manufacturing industries. New London is now known in Connecticut for its wealth of art. The city is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College, Mitchell College, the Coast Guard Station New London and New London Harbor is home port to the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Chinook and the Coast Guards tall ship Eagle. New London had a population of 27,620 at the 2010 census, the Norwich-New London metropolitan area includes twenty-one towns and 274,055 people. The area was called Nameaug by the Pequot Indians, John Winthrop, Jr. founded the first English settlement here in 1646, making it about the 13th town settled in Connecticut. Inhabitants informally referred to it as Nameaug or as Pequot after the tribe, in the 1650s, the colonists wanted to give the town the official name of London after London, England, but the Connecticut General Assembly wanted to name it Faire Harbour. The citizens protested, declaring that they would prefer it to be called Nameaug if it couldnt be officially named London, the legislature relented, and the town was officially named New London on March 10,1658. The harbor was considered to be the best deep water harbor on Long Island Sound, famous New Londoners during the American Revolution include Nathan Hale, William Coit, Richard Douglass, Thomas & Nathaniel Shaw, Gen. Samuel Parsons, printer Timothy Green, and Samuel Seabury. It is often noted that this raid on New London and Groton was intended to divert General Washington, the main defensive fort for New London was Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton. It was well known to Arnold, who sold its secrets to the British fleet so that they could avoid its artillery fire, after overrunning New Londons Fort Trumbull, Ft. All told, more than 52 British soldiers and 83 militia were killed, New London suffered over 6 militia killed and 24 wounded, while Arnold and the British and Hessian raiding party suffered an equal amount. Connecticuts independent legislature made New London one of the first two cities brought from de facto to formalized incorporations in its January session of 1784, along with New Haven, during the War of 1812, torpedoes were employed in attempts to destroy British vessels and protect American harbors. In fact, a torpedo was used in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy HMS Ramillies while in New Londons harbor. Hardy to warn the Americans to cease efforts with the use of any boat in this cruel and unheard-of warfare. For several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the three busiest whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts

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Durham, New Hampshire
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Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 14,638 at the 2010 census, Durham is home to the University of New Hampshire. The primary settlement in the town, where 10,345 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined by the U. S, situated beside Great Bay at the mouth of the Oyster River, Durham was originally called Oyster River Plantation. It was settled in 1635 by pioneers who traveled up the Piscataqua River, at the time, the land that is now New Hampshire belonged to Massachusetts, not until 1692 did the New Hampshire colony finally gain full and permanent independence from its southern neighbor. Most of the area was divided among four townships, and for its first century. The village location was ideal for its water, natural meadows for livestock. The land along the river was settled, and nearby dense forests provided the timber necessary to construct homes as well as boats. Oyster River Plantation took the form of an agricultural village. The town name Durham was suggested by the Rev, hugh Adams, as claimed by him in an address to the General Assembly in 1738. In all,104 inhabitants were killed and 27 taken captive, with half the dwellings, including the garrisons, the community would rebuild, however, and by 1716 Durham was a separate parish. Incorporated in 1732, Durham once included portions of the towns of Madbury, Lee. Because of its land, the town would develop as a farming community. Benjamin Thompson, a descendant of a settler, bequeathed his assets and family estate, Warner Farm. Founded in 1866 in Hanover, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture, Thompson Hall, built in 1892 with an iconic clock tower, is named in his honor. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style by the Concord architectural firm of Dow & Randlett, over the years the people of Durham have created several libraries, Durham Social Library, This library was incorporated by act of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1815. The library contained several hundred books and had a membership numbering nearly 50, Durham Agricultural Library, Formed Feb.3,1862, with Benjamin Thompson as president, this library was small and vocationally-based. Durham Social Library, Organized March 9,1881, the library had a membership of 80, in 1883 the Richardson house was purchased to house the library. It eventually merged with the Durham Public Library, Durham Public Library, Established in 1892 through the provisions of a New Hampshire state act, this was the towns first public library

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Ramnapping Trophy
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The schools competed in all sports for decades as members of the Yankee Conference. Even though UConn became a member of the Big East in 1979. The yearly games ended after UConn left the A-10 to move to I-A football in 2000, the two teams are set to meet again in East Hartford in 2018. In 93 meetings since 1897, UConn leads the series 51–34–8, the schools most recently met at Rentschler Field on September 26,2009, with UConn winning 52–10. The Ramnapping Trophy was formerly awarded to the winner of the football game between the two schools. The name of the trophy originates from a 1930s-era tradition where a few UConn students would go to the URI campus, the trophy is topped with a football player standing on a football that is etched with a ram and a husky etched facing one another on a football field. The plaque on the base reads, Connecticut State v. Rhode Island State Football Series Trophy in Memory of the famous ramnapping of 1934. The Ramnapping Trophy is on display to the public as part of the J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum on the UConn Main Campus in Storrs, the trophy was last brought out during the 1999 game. ^ † By forfeit UConnHuskies. com article on the museum, including a mention of the trophy

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Connecticut Huskies football
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The Connecticut Huskies football team is a college football team that represents the University of Connecticut in the sport of American football. The team competes in NCAA Division I FBS in the American Athletic Conference, Connecticut first fielded a team in 1896, and participated in Division I-AA until 1999. The Huskies began their two-year Division I-A transition period in 2000, from 2000 to 2003 the team played as an independent. The schools football team joined the conference of its other sport teams. The University of Connecticut began playing football in 1896 when the school was known as Storrs Agricultural College, the first year was spent playing against local high schools and YMCA clubs. The following year provided their first competition against future rivals Rhode Island, an opponent that would be played over 100 times, other early rivals included the Ivy League and the Little Ivies, particularly Yale University starting in 1948, who have played the Huskies for 50 years. Tragedy struck the team on September 27,1919 when Gardner Dow died from injuries related to a flying tackle that he delivered in a game against New Hampshire. The college would honor Dow by naming the athletic fields after him and these fields would become the home for most of the schools athletic teams for the next three decades. In 1924, the Aggies celebrated their first undefeated season when they finished six wins, no losses. The defense was the strength of the team, as allowed a meager thirteen points to be scored against them over the entire season. The team was proclaimed by the New York Times to be among the best in the country, the UConn Club memorializes ONeill with a yearly award given to a former student-athlete who has had a successful professional career. Red ONeill went on to one of Connecticuts first players to play in the NFL. He played for the Hartford Blues in 1926, their year in the NFL. Another player is Art Pop Williams, winning a championship with the Providence Steam Roller in 1928, the Steam Roller are New Englands first NFL champion. The renamed Huskies went on to become members of the Yankee Conference. In 2012, Bill Belichick stated in an interview on WEEI that in 1983 he applied for the Huskies head coaching position but was turned down in favor of an internal hire. Connecticut hired Lew Perkins as its director in 1990. One of Perkins first projects was to gather facts for an upgrade of the football program to Division I-A

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Memorial Stadium (Storrs)
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Memorial Stadium was a stadium in Storrs, Connecticut. It was primarily used for American football, and was the field of the University of Connecticut football team between 1953 and 2002. The teams current home is Rentschler Field in East Hartford and it was built for Uconns move up to D-1A in football. The stadium held 16,200 people and was built in 1953 and it was demolished in May 2012 to make way for a new $40 million basketball practice facility, the Uconn Basketball Champions Center, which opened in 2014

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Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field
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Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field is a stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut. It is primarily used for football and soccer, and is the field of the University of Connecticut Huskies. In the fall of 2010, it was home to the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League, the stadium, which opened in 2003, was the first stadium used primarily by an NCAA Division I-A team to open in the 21st century. The permanent stadium capacity is 40,642 consisting of 38,110 permanent seats with an additional 2,532 standing room in the scoreboard plaza and it also has a game day capability to add approximately 2,000 temporary seats as it did for UConn football vs. Connecticut played on campus at Memorial Stadium in Storrs, before 2003, Rentschler Field was originally the name of the company airfield for Pratt & Whitney that formerly occupied the site. It was originally used for test flights and maintenance operations, the 75-acre site was decommissioned as an airport in the 1990s, and donated to the state of Connecticut by United Technologies in 1999. A subsequent 65-acre donation by United Technologies in 2009 allowed for the construction of additional parking lots adjacent to the Stadium. Pursuant to an agreement with the State, UConn plays all its home football games at Rentschler Field. The New England Patriots considered moving to Connecticut and sharing a stadium with the UConn football team in the mid-1990s, the new stadium was supposed to be built on the Connecticut Convention Center site in downtown Hartford. However, when the Patriots completed the deal for Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Hartford stadium plan was scaled down and the location was moved to East Hartford. The current capacity of 40,642 can expand to 50,000 with limited rehabilitation and has the layout, the stadium is owned by the State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management, while operations are overseen by the quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority. Global Spectrum, L. P. has managed the building on behalf of CRDA since 2013, previously, the Stadium was managed by Bushnell Management Services, Anschutz Entertainment Group and Madison Square Garden L. P. On July 16,2015, it was announced that Rentschler Field had been renamed Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in a deal between Pratt & Whitney and UConn, in return, Pratt and Whitney donated additional land that will be used for game day parking. The Connecticut Huskies football team has an all time 57–34 home field advantage at Rentschler Field, Rentschler Field has hosted several United States mens national soccer teams home games, including Landon Donovans last game for the National Team on October 10,2014. Rentschler Field has hosted several United States womens national teams home games. The Hartford Colonials were a United Football League team that played their games at Rentschler Field. During their, the Colonials played all four games at Rentschler, after having played one there the previous season while they were known as the New York Sentinels. Attendance at Colonials games averaged a consistent 15,000 people, third place in the league behind Omaha

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List of Connecticut Huskies bowl games
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The Connecticut Huskies football team has represented the University of Connecticut in National Collegiate Athletic Association football since the teams founding in 1896. The Huskies have played in six bowl games, all following their transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A in 2000. UConns longest bowl invitation streak is four seasons, from 2007 to 2010, under head coach Randy Edsall, the Connecticut Huskies football program has enjoyed success. Prior to his hiring, UConn only appeared in two post-season football contests, during the 1998 NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, during his first tenure as head coach, the Huskies played in five bowl games including one Bowl Championship Series bowl game. The team also shared two Big East conference championships and were ranked at times in the Associated Press, Coaches. During the six years between Edsalls departure after the 2010 season and return for the 2017 season, UConn played in one bowl game, in 2015. Dan Orlovsky earned MVP honors for his UConn-bowl game-best passing performance in 2004, wide receiver Marcus Easley was drafted in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. The Huskies first post-season bowl game was in 2004, when participated in the 2004 Motor City Bowl in Detroit. The most recent UConn bowl game occurred on December 26,2015, a loss in that game brought Connecticut to an overall bowl record of three wins and three losses, a.500 winning percentage. Attendance records are correct as of the end of the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The first bowl game in Connecticut history came at the conclusion of the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season, the season before, UConn finished with a 9–3 overall record, but did not receive a bowl invitation due to the lack of conference affiliation. Even as a member of the Big East, UConn was shut out of the conference-affiliated bowl picture. Pittsburgh, Boston College, West Virginia, and Syracuse all finished ahead of the Huskies in a tie for first place. The remaining slot was filled by Notre Dame, who was not a member of the Big East Conference for football but had a contract allowing them to be selected in place of a Big East team. Fortunately for UConn, the Big Ten did not have enough teams to fill all of its contracted bowl slots. UConns opponent would be the Toledo Rockets of the Mid-American Conference, the 2004 Motor City Bowl was played on December 27,2004 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The game was anticipated to be an affair, with both teams quarterbacks among the top seven nationally in passing that year. In the second quarter, after Toledo finally scored on a rushing touchdown by Gradkowski

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Civil Conflict
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, Civil wars may result in large numbers of casualties and the consumption of significant resources. Most modern civil wars involve intervention by outside powers, according to Patrick M. Civil wars since the end of World War II have lasted on average just over four years, a dramatic rise from the one-and-a-half-year average of the 1900–1944 period. For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century while there were over 20 concurrent civil wars close to the end of the Cold War. Since 1945, civil wars have resulted in the deaths of over 25 million people, ann Hironaka further specifies that one side of a civil war is the state. The intensity at which a civil disturbance becomes a war is contested by academics. Some political scientists define a civil war as having more than 1000 casualties, the Correlates of War, a dataset widely used by scholars of conflict, classifies civil wars as having over 1000 war-related casualties per year of conflict. Based on the 1000 casualties per year criterion, there were 213 civil wars from 1816 to 1997,104 of which occurred from 1944 to 1997. If one uses the less-stringent 1000 casualties total criterion, there were over 90 civil wars between 1945 and 2007, with 20 ongoing civil wars as of 2007. The Geneva Conventions do not specifically define the term civil war and this includes civil wars, however no specific definition of civil war is provided in the text of the Conventions. That the legal Government is obliged to have recourse to the military forces against insurgents organized as military. That the insurgents have an organization purporting to have the characteristics of a State and that the insurgent civil authority exercises de facto authority over the population within a determinate portion of the national territory. That the armed forces act under the direction of an authority and are prepared to observe the ordinary laws of war. That the insurgent civil authority agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Convention, scholars investigating the cause of civil war are attracted by two opposing theories, greed versus grievance. Scholarly analysis supports the conclusion that economic and structural factors are more important than those of identity in predicting occurrences of civil war, a comprehensive study of civil war was carried out by a team from the World Bank in the early 21st century. A second source of finance is national diasporas, which can fund rebellions, the study found that statistically switching the size of a countrys diaspora from the smallest found in the study to the largest resulted in a sixfold increase in the chance of a civil war. Opportunity cost of rebellion Higher male secondary school enrollment, per capita income, the study interpreted these three factors as proxies for earnings forgone by rebellion, and therefore that lower forgone earnings encourage rebellion

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Jonathan the Husky
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Jonathan the Husky is the mascot of the University of Connecticut. All of UConns huskies are named Jonathan in honor of Jonathan Trumbull, there are two versions of Jonathan, the costumed version and the canine version. All but the first real husky mascot, a brown and white dog, had been white with one brown eye and one blue eye, until 2013 when UCONN officially changed their logo to a black. The newest Jonathan is Jonathan XIV, a black and white male introduced January 29,2014, Jonathan is one of the few university mascots in the nation to have been selected by students via a popular poll. The co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega has helped to care for the canine Jonathan since the 1970s, Jonathan I In 1934 Rhode Islands ram mascot was kidnapped and the story gained interest in bringing a live animal mascot to Connecticut State College. A student poll selected the husky, and January 1935 Connecticut State Colleges first husky mascot had arrived at the campus in Storrs, the Alumnus had announced a Name the Mascot Contest and Jonathan was the winning entry. Sadly, the day before the name was announced Jonathan I was struck by a vehicle in North Windam, Jonathan I was able to attend a few basketball games at Hawley Armory before his passing. He is buried by the Old Whitney granite step and a plaque commemorates his life, Jonathan II Jonathan II debuted November 8,1935 at a pep rally prior to the annual football rivalry game against Rhode Island. Jonathan II was an Eskimo Husky, and cousin to the original Jonathan, Jonathan made his presence felt in September 1936. He scared Brown’s bear mascot severely, and chased the bear up a tree, Jonathan II made Brown’s bear so timid, it refused to leave the tree. The bear had to be rescued from the tree by Providence police, Jonathan III Jonathan III made his debut November 8,1947, against Rhode Island in football. Jonathan III is best known for chasing Yale’s bulldog mascot around the Yale Bowl, the only other information about Jonathan III is that he was dog-napped prior to a football game. Jonathan IV Jonathan IV arrived on campus in 1949 and he was a Siberian-Eskimo-Samoyed mix with greyish markings. His first football game was against Yale, and he bit their bulldog mascot on the nose, Jonathan IV traveled to New York City in 1951, to accompany the men’s basketball team in their first NCAA tournament appearance. Jonathan IV was not a big fan of opposing players and was known to growl when points were scored against UConn. Jonathan V Jonathan V made his appearance as the UConn mascot in 1959, unfortunately Jonathan V was not able to handle the noise and commotion of large crowds. This made appearances at football games unpleasant for Jonathan V, news reports refer to Jonathan V as “shell shocked”. Jonathan V was retired in 1963, UConn introduced a man in a husky costume mascot to serve as an interim mascot known as “Homer the Husky”

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University of Connecticut Marching Band
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The University of Connecticut Marching Band, nicknamed The Pride of Connecticut, was formed in 1904 as an all-male ROTC band. It is currently under the direction of Dr. David Mills and assisted by Marvin McNeill, there are about 300 members in the band. It performs pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows at home football game at Rentschler Field. Official Website Like the UCMB on Facebook Follow the UCMB on Twitter UCMB Blogs UCMB Videos Past UCMB Performance Locations

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List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft
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The University of Connecticut Huskies football team has had 39 players selected in the National Football League Draft. Two of those selections were in the first round of the draft, a Connecticut football alumnus had been selected in every NFL Draft from 2007 to 2015 and in ten of the last twelve NFL Drafts. Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the annual NFL Draft, the draft rules were last updated in 2009. The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst team second, teams that did not make the playoffs are ordered by their regular-season record with any remaining ties broken by strength of schedule. Playoff participants are sequenced after non-playoff teams, based on their round of elimination, before the merger agreements in 1966, the American Football League operated in direct competition with the NFL and held a separate draft. This led to a war over top prospects between the two leagues. As part of the agreement on June 8,1966. Once the AFL officially merged with the NFL in 1970, the Common Draft simply became the NFL Draft, the first Connecticut player to be taken in the NFL Draft was Walt Trojanowski in the sixth round of the 1946 NFL Draft. From 1946–1994, the Huskies had fourteen players drafted into the NFL over the span of forty-eight years, the rate at which UConn alumni were selected would significantly increase following the Huskies upgrade from Division I-AA to Division I-A in 2000. Beginning in 2005 and continuing through 2015, Connecticut has had twenty-five players picked over eleven NFL Drafts, in 2009 four UConn alumni were taken in the first two rounds of the draft. The most Connecticut players to be selected in a single NFL Draft was five in 2013, including three in the third round, one in the fourth round, and one in the sixth round

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Jasper Howard
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Jasper Tyrone Howard, was a cornerback for the University of Connecticut Huskies from 2007 to 2009. He was fatally stabbed on October 18,2009, hours after UConns win over the Louisville Cardinals, Howard grew up in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, an area known for its poverty and violence. His mother JoAngila Howard worked numerous jobs to support Howard and his two younger sisters and his youngest sister had health issues after battling a severe case of meningitis. His plan was to get a scholarship and go to the NFL to get money. He was also the team captain, Howard became the first person in his family to go to college when he enrolled at the University of Connecticut. In his freshman season he played in seven games as a defensive back. During the offseason he worked hard on the field and it started to pay off and he started all thirteen games in his sophomore season as cornerback and led the Big East Conference in punt returns. During his junior season Howard seemed to be getting better every game, in his last game with the Huskies on October 17,2009, he had 7 solo tackles and 4 assisted giving him a total of 11 tackles in the game, a career high. He also had a fumble recovery, just after midnight on the morning of October 18, Howard and some of his teammates were at an on-campus dance to celebrate the 38-25 homecoming win over Louisville. Jasper was stabbed to death outside the Student Union Center on the UConn campus where the dance was held, on Monday, October 19,2009 police arrested Johnny Hood,21, of Hartford, Connecticut. Police said that Hood had been charged with interfering with an officer and with breaching the peace, subsequently, arrests were made in connection with Howards murder. John William Lomax III,21, was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, October 28 on charges of murder and conspiracy to assault in the Oct.18 death of Jasper Howard. His bond was set at $2 million, police also arrested two other people in connection with the fight that led to Howards death. On January 14,2011, Lomax pleaded no contest to first degree manslaughter, on Tuesday, October 20, Connecticut students held a Day of Silence in memory of Jasper, during which the community wore dark clothes to indicate that they are united in mourning. The next day there was a vigil held on campus. Howards locker, adorned with letters, cards and the board from the Monday night vigil immediately following his death. Additionally, Edsall is planning on establishing a foundation that will help urban kids pay for college and also aid families of terminally ill players, something that Howard believed was important. Further, former Miami Edison Senior High School teammate and former Clemson Tigers cornerback Chris Chancellor paid tribute to Howard by changing his number from 38 to 6

Connecticut Aggies football
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The Connecticut Huskies football team is a college football team that represents the University of Connecticut in the sport of American football. The team competes in NCAA Division I FBS in the American Athletic Conference, Connecticut first fielded a team in 1896, and participated in Division I-AA until 1999. The Huskies began their two-year Divis

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The football team plays on Gardner Dow Athletic Fields in 1920.

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UConn would be granted an attendance waiver by the NCAA in order to play its home games at Memorial Stadium in Storrs during the 2000-2002 seasons.

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Press box at Rentschler Field in 2008

New England Conference
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The New England Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the Eastern United States, more specifically in New England, that operated from 1923 to 1947. The conference had five members—four of them public land-grant institutions, specifically, the four public schools in the conference were what are now known as the Universities of Connecticut

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New England Conference

New Hampshire Wildcats football
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The New Hampshire Wildcats football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of New Hampshire located in the U. S. state of New Hampshire. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, New Hampshires first football team was fielded in

Maine Black Bears football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association. Maines first football team was fielded in 1892, the team plays its home games at the 10,000 seat Alfond Stadium in Orono, Maine. The Black Bears have competed in just one game, the 1965 Tangerine Bowl. They lost 31–0 to E

Rhode Island Rams football
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The Rhode Island Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Rhode Island located in the U. S. state of Rhode Island. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, Rhode Islands first football team was fielded in 1895. Th

University of Connecticut
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The University of Connecticut is a land grant public research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881, and is also a sea-grant university, the university serves more than 32,000 students on its five campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn is one of the institutions of the Ha

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University of Connecticut, circa 1903

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University of Connecticut

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Aerial view of main campus

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Main quad

Albright Lions football
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Albright College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college. It was founded in 1856 and is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, Albright College has been named one of the Best Northeastern schools for 13 consecutive years by The Princeton Review. Albright College has also named one of the most ethnically and economically diverse schools in the

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Albright College

Reading, Pennsylvania
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Reading, is the county seat of Berks County and with a population of 98,653 is the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania. Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, it is the city of the Greater Reading Area. Reading Railroad is one of the four properties in the classic United States version of the Monopoly board game. Reading was one of the first localiti

Orono, Maine
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Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Still Water Rivers, it was first settled by Europeans in 1774 and named in honor of Chief Joseph Orono and it is home to the University of Maine. The towns population was 10,362 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an ar

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Mill Street business in downtown Orono

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Seal

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Orono town offices

Tufts Jumbos football
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The Tufts Jumbos represent Tufts University of Medford, Massachusetts in the sport of college football. The team has played since the 1874–75 season, the Jumbos compete at the NCAA Division III level and have been members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference since the conferences formation in 1971. The football team plays its game a

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West Hall Quad Post Run T-shirt 1991-1992

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Former Tufts president John DiBiaggio celebrating Spring Fling in 1993

Coast Guard Bears football
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The United States Coast Guard Academys intercollegiate sports teams are called the boats and they compete in NCAA Division III as members of the New England Womens and Mens Athletic Conference. The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, in 1926, then-Cadet Stephen Evans brought a live bear to the academy and named it Objee for Objectio

New London, Connecticut
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New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the worlds three busiest whaling ports, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts. The wealth that

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Downtown on the west bank of the Thames River

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View of New London in 1813

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View of New London in 1854

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Historic First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ on State Street in New London – side photo taken from Citizens Bank

Durham, New Hampshire
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Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 14,638 at the 2010 census, Durham is home to the University of New Hampshire. The primary settlement in the town, where 10,345 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined by the U. S, situated beside Great Bay at the mouth of the Oyster River, Durham was origin

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Old Mill and Dam, Durham c. 1908

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General View of UNH in 1913

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Hamilton Smith Hall c. 1920

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Sam Fuld

Ramnapping Trophy
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The schools competed in all sports for decades as members of the Yankee Conference. Even though UConn became a member of the Big East in 1979. The yearly games ended after UConn left the A-10 to move to I-A football in 2000, the two teams are set to meet again in East Hartford in 2018. In 93 meetings since 1897, UConn leads the series 51–34–8, the

Connecticut Huskies football
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The Connecticut Huskies football team is a college football team that represents the University of Connecticut in the sport of American football. The team competes in NCAA Division I FBS in the American Athletic Conference, Connecticut first fielded a team in 1896, and participated in Division I-AA until 1999. The Huskies began their two-year Divis

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The football team plays on Gardner Dow Athletic Fields in 1920.

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UConn would be granted an attendance waiver by the NCAA in order to play its home games at Memorial Stadium in Storrs during the 2000-2002 seasons.

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Press box at Rentschler Field in 2008

Memorial Stadium (Storrs)
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Memorial Stadium was a stadium in Storrs, Connecticut. It was primarily used for American football, and was the field of the University of Connecticut football team between 1953 and 2002. The teams current home is Rentschler Field in East Hartford and it was built for Uconns move up to D-1A in football. The stadium held 16,200 people and was built

Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field
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Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field is a stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut. It is primarily used for football and soccer, and is the field of the University of Connecticut Huskies. In the fall of 2010, it was home to the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League, the stadium, which opened in 2003, was the first stadium used prima

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Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field

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Rentschler Field scoreboard in 2010

List of Connecticut Huskies bowl games
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The Connecticut Huskies football team has represented the University of Connecticut in National Collegiate Athletic Association football since the teams founding in 1896. The Huskies have played in six bowl games, all following their transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A in 2000. UConns longest bowl invitation streak is four seasons, from 2

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Bowl game banners at Rentschler Field, home of Connecticut Huskies football, as of September 2015

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The UConn marching band performs prior to kickoff.

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Jersey of Jasper Howard held aloft

Civil Conflict
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed f

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Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, American Civil War, 1863

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Battle of Tewkesbury (1471) of the Wars of the Roses in England

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Tanks in the streets of Addis Ababa after rebels seized the capital during the Ethiopian Civil War (1991)

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An economic dependence on commodities, such as diamonds being mined by these children in Sierra Leone, is correlated with an increased risk of civil war. (See also blood diamond and resource curse.)

Jonathan the Husky
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Jonathan the Husky is the mascot of the University of Connecticut. All of UConns huskies are named Jonathan in honor of Jonathan Trumbull, there are two versions of Jonathan, the costumed version and the canine version. All but the first real husky mascot, a brown and white dog, had been white with one brown eye and one blue eye, until 2013 when UC

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Jonathan (costume version) standing under a blow-up version of a husky.

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The canine Jonathan XIII with former president of UConn, Michael Hogan.

University of Connecticut Marching Band
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The University of Connecticut Marching Band, nicknamed The Pride of Connecticut, was formed in 1904 as an all-male ROTC band. It is currently under the direction of Dr. David Mills and assisted by Marvin McNeill, there are about 300 members in the band. It performs pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows at home football game at Rentschler Field. O

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UCMB performing at Michigan Stadium

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UCMB performing pre-game at the 2011 Fiesta Bowl

List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft
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The University of Connecticut Huskies football team has had 39 players selected in the National Football League Draft. Two of those selections were in the first round of the draft, a Connecticut football alumnus had been selected in every NFL Draft from 2007 to 2015 and in ten of the last twelve NFL Drafts. Each NFL franchise seeks to add new playe

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Donald Brown was the first player in Connecticut Huskies football history to be drafted in the first round.

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Will Beatty was the first UConn draftee to play for a Super Bowl -winning team: the 2011 New York Giants.

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Quarterback Dan Orlovsky, drafted in the 5th round in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, is as of 2015 Connecticut's longest-serving active alumnus in the NFL.

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Darius Butler was the first UConn alumnus to be selected in the second round of the NFL Draft, in 2009.

Jasper Howard
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Jasper Tyrone Howard, was a cornerback for the University of Connecticut Huskies from 2007 to 2009. He was fatally stabbed on October 18,2009, hours after UConns win over the Louisville Cardinals, Howard grew up in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, an area known for its poverty and violence. His mother JoAngila Howard worked numerous jobs to